Abstract
The topic of the current volume of the Yearbook is constitutional advice. This topic has been relatively underexplored by legal scholarship, much like the place of cities in constitutional law, which readers may recall was the focus of the previous edition. We prefer a broad understanding of constitutional advice as encompassing the seeking and rendering of advice on constitutional topics, including the study of the processes and institutions that enable and contextualise such advice. This understanding immediately calls to mind two interrelated questions, viz. what is meant by ‘advice’, and what may be considered to be ‘constitutional topics’ that the advice relates to.
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Notes
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Hirsch Ballin 2020, p. 13.
- 2.
Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Koopmans 2003, pp. 248–251.
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Consider the work on courts with constitutional jurisdiction, such as Sadurski 2014.
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Ginsburg 2017, p. 20.
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Tushnet 2008, p. 1473.
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Tushnet 2008, p. 1474.
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On the distinction between codified and uncodified constitutions, see Barendt 1998, pp. 26–34.
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The contemporary examples mentioned or discussed by Ginsburg 2017, pp. 17–23, would fit this category.
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Tushnet 2008, p. 1493.
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Tushnet 2008, p. 1495.
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See Vermeulen and Jasiak 2018; De Visser 2015. For an example of the Commission’s work, see the first opinion rendered recently on the Netherlands, Venice Commission, Opinion 1031/2021 on the Legal Protection of Citizens, Doc. CDL-AD(2021)031-e (15–16 October 2021). See Leijten 2021 on this opinion.
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For a critical introduction and analysis of the Agency, see Von Bogdandy and Von Bernstorff 2009.
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Article 2 of the Council Regulation (EC) No. 168/2007 of 15 February 2007 establishing a European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.
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See Stremler 2021.
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District Court of The Hague, judgment of 24 June 2015, ECLI:NL:RBDHA, 2015:7196; Court of Appeal of The Hague, judgment of 9 October 2018 (ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2018:2610); Supreme Court, judgment of 20 December 2019 (ECLI:NL:HR:2019:2006). English translations of the judgments can be accessed at: https://www.rechtspraak.nl/Bekende-rechtszaken/klimaatzaak-urgenda (last accessed 30 June 2021). See Van der Schyff 2020.
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ECtHR Case No. 39371/20 (Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal and Others). See Henri 2020.
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Ginsburg 2017.
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de Poorter, J., van der Schyff, G., Stremler, M., De Visser, M. (2022). Introduction: Mapping the Emerging Field of Constitutional Advice. In: de Poorter, J., van der Schyff, G., Stremler, M., De Visser, M. (eds) European Yearbook of Constitutional Law 2021. European Yearbook of Constitutional Law, vol 3. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-535-5_1
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